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News for Metro Area Library Staff
 
Volume 7 No. 23
2016
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Metronet is the multicounty multitype library system serving Twin City libraries.
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MELSA is a federation of the seven metropolitan Twin Cities county public library systems plus the city of Saint Paul Public Library. 
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  • Julie Benolken, Instructor/Librarian at Inver Hills Community College, was appointed to YALSA's 2018 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature award committee, term beginning Feb 2017.
  • Jenny McElroy, MHS reference librarian, is running for RUSA-HS (History Section) chair.
  • Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative Board of Directors has hired Ann Hokanson, currently the Director of the Austin, MN, Public Library as its new Executive Director. She will start work in the Mankato office on the first of January.
  • st paul latimer library This school year, the Saint Paul Public Library and Saint Paul Public Schools launch Library Go, a program to provide free, virtual public library cards for all students. 
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CE, Events, Resources, Opportunities
  • Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Lake Superior Libraries Mid-Winter Unsymposium at UW-Superior's Jim Dan Hill Library! Jan 6 from 1-4:30. Limited space available.
  • Join us for Inside the Library at Downton Abbey Wind Down, Wed, Dec 14, 4:30-6:30pm.  Andersen Library Room 120ABC. Hear Tim Johnson, Curator of Special Collections & Rare Books / E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at UMN Libraries, talk about what people read, collected, & displayed in impressive country house libraries. RSVP requested, but not required. Plus networking & refreshments.  

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